Today we need to experience Christ and the cross – enjoy the all-inclusive Christ and allow the cross to operate in us – to live in the kingdom of the Son of God’s love. In the kingdom of the Son of God’s love, there is only one person – the all-inclusive Christ – and one […]
Partake of the Lord’s Willingness to Take up the Cross and Bear it for the Church
January 24, 2025 by 15 Comments
As believers in Christ who desire to cooperate with the Lord for the building up of His church so that He may return soon, we need to learn to exercise the key of taking up the cross; we need to partake of the Lord’s willingness to bear the cross so that we may be happy […]
Experience Christ as Everything and Taking up our Cross for the Genuine Church Life
July 28, 2023 by 13 Comments
The way for us to realize the genuine church life is to experience Christ as everything to us; furthermore, the genuine church life requires us to take up our cross and follow the Lord, for only when the self is crossed out can Christ come to be the reality of the church life. The […]
Being Saved from Selfishness and Disobedience and Building up the Kingdom of God
June 9, 2022 by Leave a Comment
From the life of Saul the King we need to learn to crucify our flesh, be saved from selfishness, and reject any rebellion in following the Lord; our work is the work of the Lord, and it is the church as the kingdom of God that we build up, not our own kingdom. As […]
Being Willing to Take up our Cross and Bear it for the Building up of the Church
July 6, 2019 by 1 Comment
As believers in Christ, we need to learn to exercise the keys of the kingdom to lock up the gates of Hades and release the building up of the church; we need to learn to deny the self, take up our cross, and lose our soul life. If we do not exercise daily to deny […]
Exercise the Key of Denying the Self, for Satan Manipulates the Self to Damage the Church
July 4, 2019 by Leave a Comment
The building up of the church depends on the shutting up of the gates of Hades through the exercise of the keys of the kingdom; for us to build up the church, we need to exercise the key of denying the self (Matt. 16:24). Christ, the Son of the living God, builds the church on […]
Judging Ourselves as Nothing: we are what we are by the Grace of God for God’s Building
April 7, 2016 by 1 Comment
In our review and enjoyment of the intrinsic significance of the materials of the temple, we have seen that both in the tabernacle and in the temple gold overlays wood, that is, God is mingled with man. The building of God, God’s temple, is a matter of God being mingled with man; God’s building is […]
